It’s 50 years since Tina Turner released her first single, and to celebrate The Mail on Sunday is giving away a FREE Greatest Hits CD – which will be specially compiled by you.

Over the past five decades this thrilling performer has sold nearly 180million records and more concert tickets than any solo star.

Today we’re offering you the chance to choose the tracks you would put on a Tina Turner Greatest Ever Hits album. Just pick your favourites from the 20 great tracks below and the 15 most popular choices will be put together on a special and exclusive CD.

Once you've made your selection after listening to these tracks, click here to vote.

Free CD: Another great musical first from the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll - Tina Turner - and The Mail on Sunday

Then, your FREE Tina Turner Greatest Hits album – as compiled by you – will appear in The Mail on Sunday later this month.

Here, to help you choose, our music critic Adam Woods gives his verdict on the 20 tracks to pick from.

Open Arms

Was released as a single at the end of 2004 and is taken from her compilation album All The Best. It reached No 25 in the UK singles chart. The track features backing vocals from KT Tunstall and Estelle.

Nutbush City Limits

Originally released in November 1973, it reached No 4 in the UK singles chart. Nutbush City Limits is a semi-autobiographical rock ’n’ roll song written by Tina in which she describes her hometown of Nutbush, Tennessee.

Listen to samples from Open Arms, Nutbush City Limits, Missing You and The Best below:

Missing You

Written by John Waite and recorded by Tina in 1996, this was released as the third single from the album Wildest Dreams. Tina’s version hit No 12 in the UK singles chart.

The Best

Written by Mike Chapman and Holly Knight. Tina’s version of the song was released as a highly successful single in 1989 and featured on her hit album Foreign Affair. In Britain it peaked at No 5 in the singles chart.

Private Dancer

This was written by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits fame and was the title track of Tina’s breakthrough solo album Private Dancer. The track is sung from the perspective of a high-class prostitute and became one of her most successful singles.

Listen to samples from Private Dancer, I Can’t Stand The Rain, When The Heartache Is Overand I Don’t Wanna Fight below:

I Can’t Stand The Rain

Written by Don Bryant, Bernard ‘Bernie’ Miller and soul singer Ann Peebles, this song was originally recorded

by Peebles. Tina’s version was released as the sixth single from the album Private Dancer in 1985. The recording also featured on the TV series Eve.

When The Heartache Is Over

This was a hit single in 1999. The song, produced by Brian Rawling and Mark Taylor – the team behind Cher’s 1998 hit Believe – came from the album Twenty Four Seven. It was a major hit both in the pop and dance charts, reaching No 10 in the UK.

I Don’t Wanna Fight

Lulu wrote this song along with her brother Billy Lawrie and Steve DuBerry and it was first offered to singer Sade, who sent it on to Tina. She recorded it in 1993 as part of the soundtrack for her auto­biographical movie, What’s Love Got To Do With It. It reached No 7 in the UK Charts.

Whatever You Need

Was written by Russ Courtenay and Harriet Roberts. It was released as the second single from the Twenty Four Seven album in 1999

GoldenEye

The theme song to the 1995 James Bond movie. Goldeneye was written by U2’s Bono and The Edge and reached No 10 in the UK charts.

Listen to samples from Whatever You Need and GoldenEye below:

To listen to 10 more Tina Turner tracks,go to Part Two by clicking the link below:

HOW TO
VOTE

All you have to do to take part in
the vote to create a unique CD of Tina Turner’s Greatest hits is click here. Then you will be able to choose your 15 tracks from the 20 listed
here and on the website. The deadline for voting is Monday 4 October
2010. Once all the entries are in and the votes for each track counted.
The Mail on Sunday will produce a CD featuring the 15 most popular, as
voted by our readers. The CD will appear FREE inside the paper later in
the month. It couldn’t be easier, so get voting!